Israeli occupation army kills 'two militants' and demolishes houses east of Gaza.. and retrieving bodies from Khan Yunis

The Israeli occupation army announced yesterday evening, Thursday, that its forces killed "two militants" who it claimed crossed the yellow line south of the Gaza Strip, while carrying out demolition operations east of Gaza City.

The occupation army claimed that the two Palestinians posed a threat to its forces, so the air forces, under the direction of the infantry brigade, eliminated them.

It reported that the Israeli occupation army carried out demolition operations on houses east of Gaza City.

The occupation army issued new "evacuation orders" to citizens in the east of Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, on Thursday evening.

The Palestinian News Agency "WAFA" reported that the occupation army issued an evacuation order for an entire residential block in the area it describes as safe, east of Al-Tuffah neighborhood, in preparation for demolishing it and expanding the yellow line area by an additional distance of more than 100 meters, and a width of more than 300 meters.

The agency added that a massive displacement movement began for hundreds of families from east of Al-Tuffah neighborhood.

After two years of remaining under the rubble, Gaza Civil Defense crews managed to retrieve a number of the bodies of martyrs trapped under the rubble of the Al-Ashtal family home in the western Satar area of Khan Yunis, including the bodies of journalist Hiba Al-Abadla and her mother.

Civil Defense reported that all the martyrs were killed during a bombardment on their home in January 2024.

Rescue teams in Gaza work using simple and primitive machinery, along with some dilapidated heavy equipment, due to the occupation's prevention of importing modern machinery to remove rubble, in violation of the humanitarian protocol of the ceasefire agreement, including preventing the entry of "hundreds of heavy machinery" needed to retrieve bodies from under the rubble, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

While it allowed the entry of limited heavy equipment and machinery in the past two months to search for the bodies of its prisoners in the sector, the occupation continues to prevent the entry of similar machinery to search for the bodies of Palestinians.